As I Lay Dying: Movie Tie-In Edition

Consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century and adapted by James Franco for his 2013 film of the same name, As I Lay Dying is the Nobel Prize–winning author's third novel set in Yoknapatawpha County. Addie Bundren, the family matriarch, is near death, and the Bundrens prepare to fulfill her last request to transport her remains to Jefferson, Mississippi, for burial. But the difficult trip becomes an odyssey—told in 15 voices by family members (including Addie herself) and those who knew them—that reveals their inner desires and secrets, at once mocking and confirming their humanity. This edition reproduces the corrected text of the novel as established by Noel Polk in 1985.